(July 29, 2015 at 9:12 pm)abaris Wrote:(July 29, 2015 at 7:51 pm)Lek Wrote: I had to undergo random drug testing in the military and everyone who goes to work with my present employer has to undergo drug testing too. I feel so ashamed and violated.
You don't get that apart from being an intrusion into personal space it's also a fundamental waste of money and resources? Money and resources that could be used to do something excentric as actually helping the poor. I seem to remember some guy named Jesus rambling about that commie bullshit. Did you actually read the OP or are you content to let your ass do the talking?
Reading your post prompted a couple of thoughts. First, it is searching without probable cause. Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment?
Second, let us imagine, contrary to actual fact, that doing this did find drug users. What would we do with those caught, put them in prison? Is anyone stupid enough to believe that that would save money?
So it seems to me that this drug testing is a horrible waste of money. I am no lawyer, but on its face, it even seems unconstitutional. But regardless of that, it is a waste of money, and would even be an even greater waste of money if we found and then incarcerated people who were found to be using illegal drugs.
No matter how it turn it about, it seems stupid and vile.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
